Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Keizo Kawahara

Masaru Nanpei

Toshihiko Kajima

Akira Tomita

Kazutake Okamoto

Satoshi Maeda

Masayuki Tsutsumi

Shoichi Uemura

Akinobu Nagara

Hiroshi Satomi

Katsuya Ito

Mitsuo Inoue

Hiroshi Nagano

Naonobu Oda

Shoichi Gyobu

Shinji Fujita

Hisato Kobayashi

Noriko Takahashi

Kosaku Onodera

Hideki Shimizu

Katsumasa Yamamoto

Kazumoto Imai

Shigeto Yoshida

Akira Takahashi

Tohru Wada

Masaharu Hiki

Youichiro Nakagawa

Kyoichi Mizuno

Takefumi Yoshida

Kiyoshi Taniguchi

Morio Morino

Hiroko Oyama

Shinsuke Yamaguchi

Eiji Kumagai

Shunji Kurahara

Yoshiko Akitomo

Jun Yasui

Yasuyuki Okazaki

A polyester film made from two kinds of polyester resins and having a specific DSC (and a specific glass transition point) is provided, (i) which is superior in mechanical property, capable of thermocompression bonding with a metal sheet, despite a high degree of crystallization of the film, reduces quality change of plastic film laminated on the metal sheet even if faced with variation of conditions of thermocompression bonding with the metal sheet, and which is capable of thermocompression bonding even at a relatively low temperature, (ii) which is superior in formability, (iii) which is superior in flavoring property and impact resistance, and which obliterates occurrence of whitening or delamination of the film, or microcracks on the film, even if the film in the metal laminated sheet obtained by thermocompression bonding of the film on the metal sheet or on the surface of a metal can obtained by subjecting the metal laminated sheet to various form processings is crystallized, and (iv) which satisfies productivity at an industrial scale.

Polyester film, use thereof and metal laminated sheet made of said film, and metal can and metal lid made of the sheet

This polyimide film is superior in heat resistance, rigidity and high frequency properties, is free of inconveniences due to curling even when various functional layers are laminated by heating, and is preferable as a substrate film superior in thermal degradation stability for electronic parts. This polyimide film has a planar orientation coefficient of 0.79-0.89 as measured by an X-ray diffraction method, a difference in the surface planar orientation degree between one surface thereof and the other surface thereof of not more than 2 and a curling degree of not more than 5%, which is obtained by imidation of a polyimide precursor film having a particular imidation rate.

Polyimide film

An apparatus and method suitable for producing a polymer film, particularly a polyimide film, perform drying and heat treatment using a tenter type feeding apparatus that suppresses the problems of deformation of film in the vicinity of pore into which the pins bite and breakage of the pores to form long pores in the width direction. The apparatus includes a device to suppress deformation of the film in the vicinity of the tenter pins at the time point when the both ends of the film is pierced with the pins and cools the pin temperature to less than 180&#xb0; C. at the time when the film is pierced with the pins. Individual pins can be arranged on the innermost side of the pin sheets so that they are all disposed at the same distance both in the film feeding direction in the individual pin sheets and between other pin sheets.

Apparatus for producing polymer film and process for producing polymer film

An oriented syndiotactic polystyrene-based film composed of an oriented film made of a syndiotactic styrene polymer and an adhesiveness-improving layer formed from a specific water-dispersible resin on at least one surface of the oriented film, which is excellent in the tight adhesion between the oriented film and the adhesiveness-improving layer, the adhesion between the adhesiveness-improving layer and an ink layer or laminate layer applied thereon, economical efficiency, recyclability, and environmental compatibility in production. It is particularly preferable that the film be produced by applying the aqueous dispersion of the water-dispersible resin on unstretched or uniaxially stretched film to form the adhesiveness-improving layer, stretching the obtained laminate uni- or bi-axially at least one time, and then heat-treating the resulting laminate.

Oriented syndiotactic polystyrene-base film

A water-washable photosensitive flexo plate capable of reproducing images of a level as defined by a halftone resolution of 1% to 95% at 200 lines/inch, a minimum isolated dot having a diameter of 100 &mgr;m, and by a minimum isolated line having a width of 30 &mgr;m.

Water-washable photosensitive flexo plate and printing plate

A photosensitive resin composition includes (A) a hydrophobic polymer having a glass transition temperature not greater than 5.degree. C., (B) a hydrophilic polymer, (C) an ethylenically unsaturated compound, (D) a solvent capable of dissolving the component (B) more than the component (A) and (E) a photopolymerization initiator, with the content of component (B) being less than that of component (A). The resin composition can be used to prepare a printing plate having a base, a photosensitive resin layer and a covering layer arranged one over another. The photosensitive resin layer contains a dispersed phase which includes particles having a phase which includes a hydrophobic polymer, surrounded by a phase which includes a hydrophilic polymer. The photosensitive resin layer can be prepared by removing the solvent (D) to a content of 0.001-2% by weight.

Photosensitive resin composition

Disclosed herein are a process and apparatus for developing photopolymer plates which are useful for flexographic printing on account of their rubber-like elasticity, capability for development by water washing, and good ink resistance. The process and apparatus are designed to circulate by force the washout solution during the development operation in order to minimize the aggregation of photopolymer particles suspending in the washout solution and to completely catch scum which occurs when the unexposed part of the polymer plate is rubbed off in the washout solution.

Process and apparatus for developing photopolymer plates

A photosensitive resin composition for a flexographic printing plate which comprises:

Flexographic cured printing plate comprising a chlorinated polymer and a

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